Apparatus, method and article of manufacture for partially resisting hardware trojan induced data leakage in sequential logics

ABSTRACT

Apparatus, method and article of manufacture providing a randomized encoding scheme for sequential logics, for resistance to data leakage. Invention employs dual-rail encoding to randomize the information in the chip, and employs three-dimensional integration technology to protect the critical information that is needed to decode the data anywhere on-chip. With the present invention, even when the entire design is completely known to the attacker who also has full access to the outsourced portion, it is still not always possible to identify the information in the chip using data leakage Trojans.

PRIORITY CLAIM UNDER 35 U.S.C. § 119(e)

This patent application claims the priority benefit of the filing dateof a provisional application Ser. No. 62/422,611, filed in the UnitedStates Patent and Trademark Office on Nov. 16, 2016.

STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST

The invention described herein may be manufactured and used by or forthe Government for governmental purposes without the payment of anyroyalty thereon.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The relentless semiconductor scaling has resulted in a tremendousincrease in manufacturing cost. As a result, many design houses havegone fabless and rely on foreign low-cost fabrication facilities tomanufacture their products. Yet the globalization of semiconductorfabrication has posed a new security threat: as the trustworthiness ofthese facilities remain unknown, malicious parties or attackers canpossibly insert malicious hardware, commonly referred to as HardwareTrojans, directly into the chip during the manufacturing process.Depending on the payload, there are two different types of hardwareTrojans; Trojans that affects the functionality or reliability of achip, and Trojans that capture the data being processed by a chip, knownas data leakage Trojan. The consequences of data leakage Trojan can bedevastating, as it can allow attackers to obtain encryption keys as theyare processed or to possibly allow privilege escalation on a system.

Data leakage Trojan is usually very hard to detect for two reasons: itcan maintain the original functionality of a chip even when triggered;and it typically results in little or no increase in the chip's area orpower consumption. As such, it is almost impossible to detect it usingmethods such as runtime monitoring or post-silicon testing [1, 2]. Onthe other hand, in order for an attacker to successfully inject a dataleakage Trojan, he or she must have a complete understanding of thedesign, so that critical information at desired locations can beobtained. This can be done either before fabrication by inspecting thenetlist and layout, or after fabrication by reverse-engineering a chipprocured from the fabrication facility or on the market. The formerrequires less effort yet the netlist and layout information is sometimesprotected and not accessible to an attacker.

Based on this requirement, the most effective approaches to resist dataleakage Trojan is through design for security (DFS) [3]. DFS focuses onmaking the design harder for the attacker to understand. The existingapproaches include logic obfuscation, layout camouflaging or splitmanufacturing [3]. Obfuscation is a method of reworking the logic flowso that the actual computation being performed is not readily apparent[4]. This can mean convoluting the function with unnecessary paths/gatesor even adding additional states or dead ends to state machines. Layoutcamouflaging performs similar obfuscation but on the layout [5]. Carefullayouts can make a NAND and NOR gate look identical, which greatlyincreases the effort to decipher a full layout. Split manufacturingbreaks up the design into lowest level silicon and upper level metals[6]. The two pieces are manufactured separately preventing an attackerin one location from having access to a complete design.

All these DFS methods focus on increasing the difficulty of establishingdata leakage channels by the hardware Trojan. They can still becompromised when the same design undergoes multiple fabrication runs,which is quite often for large volume commercial products. In this case,attackers can procure a fabricated chip from one run andreverse-engineer the design. The hardware Trojans can then be designedand injected in subsequent runs. This scenario has mostly beenoverlooked and it remains an open question in the literature how toprevent data leakage when side channels are successfully established.This invention serves to provide a circuit-level design technique thatcan partially resist data leakage in sequential logics after dataleakage Trojan is injected.

OBJECTS AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The features and advantages of the present invention described in thissummary and the following detailed description are not all-inclusive.Many additional features and advantages will be apparent to one ofordinary skill in the art in view of the drawings, specification, andclaims hereof.

It is an object of the present invention to provide sequential logicswith partial resistance to hardware Trojan induced data leakage.

It is another object of the present invention to solve the untrustworthyfabrication risk problem by introducing a design method such that evenwhen the design is entirely known to an attacker and a data leakageTrojan is injected subsequently, only partial information can beobtained.

It is yet another object of the present invention to randomize theencoding of binary logic, convert any sequential binary logic into onewith randomized encoding, and partition a randomized encoded logic forsplit manufacturing and three-dimensional integration.

In a specific embodiment, the present invention a sequential logiccircuit security apparatus, comprises at least two combinational logiccircuit functions each having an output and at least one pair of logicinputs; at least two random logic state generators each randomlyoutputting a logic state 1 or 0; a first encoder for encoding each logicinput of the at least one pair of logic inputs with a Boolean operationon a preselected one of the at least two random logic state generators;a multiplexer having an output, and at least two selectable inputs eachbeing connected to a respective said output of said at least twocombinational logic circuit functions wherein the multiplexer selectsone of the outputs of the at least two combinational logic circuitfunctions according to the logic state of the at least two random logicstate generators; a latch having an input connected to the output of themultiplexer, an output, and a clock input; an exclusive OR circuithaving an output, a first input connected to the latch output, and asecond input wherein the second input is encoded by a second encoderperforming the Boolean operation on a current clock cycle state and aprior clock cycle state of the preselected one of said at least tworandom logic state generators.

In another embodiment of the present invention, a security method for asequential logic circuit having at least two combinational logic circuitfunctions each having an output and at least one pair of logic inputs,comprising the steps of generating at least two random logic states eachrandomly comprising a logic state 1 or 0; encoding each logic input ofthe at least one pair of logic inputs with a Boolean operation on apreselected one of the at least two random logic states; selectivelymultiplexing the output of the at least two combinational logic circuitfunctions according to a logic state of the at least two random logicstates; latching the multiplexed output of the at least twocombinational logic circuit functions; exclusively OR'ing a first inputcomprising the multiplexed output of the at least two combinationallogic circuit functions, with an encoded second input, wherein thesecond input is encoded by a step of performing the Boolean operation ona current clock cycle state and a prior clock cycle state of thepreselected one of the at least two random logic states.

In yet another embodiment of the present invention, a secure logic chipas an article of manufacture, comprises a logic portion and a securityportion, wherein the logic portion comprises a plurality ofcombinational logic circuits each having inputs and an output; thesecurity portion comprises a random logic state generator producing tworandomly generated logic states; a multiplexer having as inputs theoutputs of the combinational logic circuits and having a selection amongthe inputs based upon the logic state of the two randomly generatedlogic states; a latch for latching an output of the multiplexer; and anexclusive OR for decoding an output of the latch as a function of atleast one of the two randomly generated logic states and wherein thelogic portion and the security portion are manufactured as separatechips and thereafter functionally integrated into the secure logic chip.

Briefly stated, the present invention puts forward a randomized encodingscheme for sequential logics, for resistance to data leakage. It usesdual-rail encoding to randomize the information in the chip, and usesthree-dimensional integration technology to protect the criticalinformation that is needed to decode the data anywhere on-chip. With thepresent invention, even when the entire design is completely known tothe attacker who also has full access to the outsourced portion, it isstill not always possible to identify the information in the chip usingdata leakage Trojans.

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 depicts a design with a hardware Trojan injected according to anembodiment of the present invention

FIG. 2 is an example of a two-bit randomized encoding (dual-railencoding).

FIG. 3 shows an example of converting the state transition table of aconventional sequential logic into one with randomized dual-rail logic,which is useful for understanding various arrangements described herein.

FIG. 4 is one embodiment of the MUX-based implementation method ofrandomized encoding scheme for a sequential logic with two random bits.

FIG. 5 is one embodiment of an alternative MUX-based implementationmethod of randomized encoding scheme for a sequential logic with tworandom bits.

FIG. 6 is one embodiment of the partition method for designs implementedwith the MUX-based methods in FIG. 4 and FIG. 5.

FIG. 7 illustrates one layout based on the partition method in FIG. 6.It is useful for understanding the concepts described herein.

The figures depict an embodiment of the present invention for purposesof illustration only. One skilled in the art will readily recognize fromthe following description that alternative embodiments of the structuresand methods illustrated herein may be employed without departing fromthe principles of the invention described herein.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

While the specification concludes with claims defining features of theembodiments described herein that are regarded as novel, it is believedthat these embodiments will be better understood from a consideration ofthe description in conjunction with the drawings. As required, detailedarrangements of the present embodiments are disclosed herein; however,it is to be understood that the disclosed arrangements are merelyexemplary of the embodiments, which can be embodied in various forms.Therefore, specific structural and functional details disclosed hereinare not to be interpreted as limiting, but merely as a basis for theclaims and as a representative basis for teaching one skilled in the artto variously employ the present embodiments in virtually anyappropriately detailed structure. Further, the terms and phrases usedherein are not intended to be limiting but rather to provide anunderstandable description of the present arrangements.

An invention for addressing the data leakage issue in sequential logicsfabricated in untrustworthy fabrication facilities are discussed below.First, an embodiment will be shown describing designs with data leakagehardware Trojans injected, the target application of this invention.Second, several embodiments will be presented to show a new randomizedencoding scheme to randomize the information processed in a sequentiallogic. Third, a procedure will be shown for implementing and using therandomized encoding scheme in designing logic functions with resistanceto information leakage caused by hardware Trojans injected. Fourth, theconditions under which the information can still be uncovered will besummarized.

Referring to FIG. 1, one type of embodiment for a sequential logic 100is shown. A hardware Trojan in the form of a MUX 101 is injected. Whenthe select signal 101 a is set to 0, the virus is not triggered and thesequential logic 102 operates normally. When the select signal 101 a isset to 1, the virus is triggered and some binary bits 101 b selected bythe attacker from selected registers in the sequential logic is sentdirectly to an unused RS232 port 103, which can then be obtained by anattacker. Similar mechanisms can be used to create other types of sidechannels for data leakage.

To successfully inject a data leakage Trojan an attacker must be able toidentify the gates and understand the function of a design. With this inmind, existing methods have focused on making the design harder tointerpret. The current state of the art revolves around obfuscation,layout camouflaging, and split manufacturing. Obfuscation aims to makethe function of the circuit less obvious by using nonstandard designsfor common functions. Obfuscation can also be performed on statemachines in the design, additional states are added leading to dead endsor black hole states. Layout camouflaging attempts to disguise thedesign by making the layouts of each gate indistinguishable. Extractingthe netlist using image based techniques on the layout mask then becomesdifficult. Finally, split manufacturing attempts to break up the designinto front-end and back-end layers. The front-end consists of the lowersilicon layers and first metal layers, the back-end being the remainingmetal layers. Splitting the fabrication prevents an attacker in onelocation from having access to the complete design.

All of these existing countermeasures attempt to hide design informationfrom attackers, and can be defeated if the same design is to bemanufactured by multiple fabrication runs and an attacker can procure achip in between and reverse engineer the design to obtain the fulldesign information. The present invention is a useful, novel and anon-trivial solution to address this unsolved problem, and may be shownby several different embodiments.

The following embodiments of the present invention utilize randomizedencoding to hide information. To accomplish this, the present inventionuses a set of non-overlapping codes to encode logic values. To providemultiple representations (redundancy) so that randomness can beintroduced, more than one bit to encode logic zero and logic one isneeded.

Referring to FIG. 2, an example 200 is given where two bits are used. Inthis example (referred to as randomized dual-rail encoding), among thefour code combinations 00, 01, 10, and 11, the present invention uses 00and 11 to encode zero, and 01 and 10 to encode one. There are otherembodiments where the code length and assignment can be different, butfor the purpose of this embodiment and the embodiments described hereon,it is used so one skilled in the art may follow all the examples easily.

One of the two rails in the randomized dual-rail encoding will begenerated from a random number generator, the value of which changesevery clock cycle. In this embodiment and the embodiments hereafter, therail from which the random number is generated is referred to as therandom rail. The conversion between conventional logic and thecorresponding randomized dual-rail logic then becomes straightforward.For any conventional binary logic value x and given the random logicvalue r on one of the two rails in dual-rail representation, the logicon the other rail can be decided through an XOR gate as t=x⊕r. Note thatthe values of t, x and r must be from the same clock cycle for theequation to hold. In randomized dual-rail logic, the signals on bothrails must be known at the same time to decode the value. Protecting thevalue then converts to protecting the random bit r of each signal frombeing identified by hardware Trojans.

The following embodiment shows an approach of converting conventionalsequential logic to randomized dual-rail logic through state transittable. Referring to FIG. 3 for an example 300, which can help to betterunderstand the various arrangements described herein. The binary valuesin each row in the state transition table 301 of the conventionalsequential logic can be converted into the randomized dual-railrepresentation in the corresponding state transition table 302, whichcan then in turn be implemented. As the state transition table 302 isnot unique, there can be many different corresponding implementations.

The above approach, though straightforward, may result in significantarea and power overhead, and is not efficient for large-scale designswhere the state transition diagram can be huge. The following embodimentshows an alternative approach that is more systematic and scalable. Toreduce overhead yet maintain security, we let all the gates in asequential logic share two random rails, which requires a minimum of tworandom number generators. A single random rail with one random numbergenerator is not sufficient to hide the information for sequential logicand an attacker will still be able to identify the information. In otherwords, each signal is randomly selected to use one of the two rails toform its dual-rail representation. As such, any given Boolean functionƒ(x₁,x₂,x₃) with x₁, x₂, x₃, . . . as Boolean variables between tworegisters can be converted to the corresponding randomized dual-railrepresentation

ƒ(x ₁ ,x ₂ ,x ₃, . . . )→ƒ(t ₁ ⊕r ₁ ,t ₂ ⊕r ₂ ,t ₃ ⊕r ₁, . . . )⊕r₁  (EQN. 1)

where r₁, r₂ are the random logic values on the two common random rails,and t₁, t₂, . . . are the logic values on the other rail for signals x₁,x₂, . . . , respectively. We have assumed that the conversion usesrandom rail r₁; that t₁, t₃ use r₁ when forming the randomized dual-railrepresentation, while t₂ uses r₂. i.e., x₁=t₁⊕r₁, x₂=t₂⊕r₂. x₃=t₃⊕r₁, .. . . These can be arbitrarily chosen for primary inputs, and aredecided from the implementation of upstream logic blocks otherwise. Wehave also assumed that all the values are from the same clock cycle T.Based on the following logic equivalency which uses De Morgan's Theorem

ƒ(t ₁ ⊕r ₁ ,t ₂ ⊕r ₂ ,t ₃ ⊕r ₁, . . . )⊕r ₁= r ₁ r ₂ ƒ(t ₁ ,t ₂ ,t ₃, .. . )+ r ₁ r ₂ƒ(t ₁, t ₂ ,t ₃, . . . )+r ₁ r ₂ ƒ(t ₁,t ₂,t ₃, . . . )+r₁ r ₂ ƒ(t ₁,t ₂,t ₃, . . . )  (EQN.2)

EQN. 2 forms the structure of a MUX.

Refer to FIG. 4 for the corresponding randomized dual-railimplementation 400 of ƒ. The four logic blocks 401, 402, 403 and 404 areidentical except the additional inverters 402 b, 403 b, 404 b at some ofthe inputs 402 a, 403 a, 404 a (t₁, t₂, . . . ) and the additionalinverter at the outputs 403 c, 404 c. A 4:1 MUX 406 with two randomlygenerated bits r₁r₂ as select signal 406 a is used to decide its output405 to the register 407. The output 405 is also in dual-railrepresentation with random rail r₁ when r₁ is preselected as random railor random state to be used, and with r₂ as the non-preselected as randomrail or random state. The output of the register 407 is sent to an XORgate 408 with r₁⊕r₁′ as the second input 408 a, where r₁′ is the valueof r₁ in the past clock cycle or as depicted in FIG. 4; therepresentation r′₁ is the same as r₁(t−1). In this way the output 409 isin dual-rail representation with r₁ when r₁ is preselected as randomrail or random state to be used. We can also set the select signal 408 ato r₂⊕r₁′, in which case the output 409 is in dual-rail representationwith r₂ when r₂ is preselected as random rail or random state to beused. Note that the final XOR 408 uses r₁⊕r₁′ or r₂⊕r₁′ only if itsoutput is still intermediate (i.e., will be used by the next block). Ifits output is primary output, then only r₁′ needs to be used so itsvalue is converted back to the single rail representation to be usedexternally.

The MUX-based conversion can have another variation in terms ofpractical implementation. We can let the conversion use random rail r₂and rewrite EQN 1 as

ƒ(x ₁ ,x ₂ ,x ₃, . . . )→ƒ(t ₁ ⊕r ₁ ,t ₂ ⊕r ₂ ,t ₃ ⊕r ₁, . . . )⊕r₂  (EQN. 3)

in which case the converted dual-rail representation uses r₂. t₁, t₂ user₁ when forming the randomized dual-rail representation, while t₃ usesr₂. i.e., x₁=t₁⊕r₁, x₂=t₂⊕r₁. x₃=t₃⊕r₂, . . . . The first rail can bere-cast as

ƒ(t ₁ ⊕r ₁ ,t ₂ ⊕r ₂ ,t ₃ ⊕r ₁, . . . )⊕r ₂= r ₁ r ₂ ƒ(t ₁ t ₂ ,t ₃, . .. )+ r ₁ r ₂ ƒ(t ₁,t ₂,t ₃, . . . )+r ₁ r ₂ ƒ( t ₁ ,t ₂, t ₃ , . . . )+r₁ r ₂ ƒ(t ₁,t ₂,t ₃, . . . )  (EQN. 4)

Refer to FIG. 5 for the corresponding randomized dual-railimplementation 500. Compared with 400, the four logic blocks 501, 502,503 and 504 are identical except the locations of the inverters 502 cand 504 c at the outputs. A 4:1 MUX 506 with two bits r₁r₂ as selectsignal 506 a is used to decide its output 505. The output 505 is also indual-rail representation with random rail r₂. The output of the register507 is sent to an XOR gate 508 with r₁⊕r₂′ as the second input, wherer₂′ is the value of r₂ in the past clock cycle, which is the same asr₂(t−1). This configuration will render the final output 509. Note thatthe final XOR 508 uses r₁⊕r₂′ or r₂⊕r₂′ only if its output is stillintermediate (i.e., will be used by the next block). If its output is aprimary output, then only r₂′ needs to be used so its value is convertedback to the single rail representation to be used externally. Comparedwith the implementation 400 (see FIG. 4), this different implementationwill result in different power and area overhead. One skilled in the artcan easily create other variations following similar process describedin this embodiment.

For the randomized dual-rail logic to be effective, it must protect thetwo random rails as well as the input and output of all the registers.This is a significant advantage over any existing methods, where part ofthe information can be obtained if any part of the chip is compromised.The following embodiment will explain how the randomized dual-railimplementation can be effectively protected from data leakage hardwareTrojans.

The protection is based on the existing technology of three-dimensionalintegration, which allows two chips to be fabricated separately and thenstacked vertically. The electrical interconnections between the twochips when vertically stacked, are enabled by through-silicon-vias(TSVs). Based on three-dimensional integration, it is within the scopeof the invention to place the random number generators, all theregisters and the MUXes in the top die, which is fabricated in a securefacility, and the rest of the sequential logic in the bottom die, whichcan be outsourced and fabricated in an untrustworthy facility. The twodies can then be stacked together in a secure facility. In addition,since the only designs needed in the top die are registers and MUXes ina regular structure, which are independent of the function of thesequential logic in the bottom die, it is possible to pre-fabricate ageneric top die in an array structure, which contains regularly placedcells of registers and MUXes. Depending on the detailed placement of thebottom die, only some of the cells will be used. Refer to FIG. 6 for anillustration 600 of the structure. Each cell 601 contains the regularstructure 602 formed by a 4:1 MUX, a register and an XOR, and the tworandom rails 603 and 604 send the two random bits to each cell in acrossbar structure.

It is important to point out that the method does not always protect theinformation in the chip. In certain scenarios it is possible for anattacker to infer the information based on the data collected at theI/Os of the top die. To successfully infer an internal signal, anattacker will need to inject Trojans to monitor all the inputs at thecorresponding MUX and as well as the output of the XOR. For example,referring back to FIG. 4, in design 400, although the MUXes and theregister are in the top die where an attacker has no access, the inputs406 b, 406 c, 406 d, 406 e to the 4:1 MUX 406 and the output 409 of theXOR gate 408 are all on the bottom die and are accessible to anattacker. An attacker will need to inject Trojans at these locations tomonitor them. As 409 comes from 406 b, 406 c, 406 d, 406 e (selected bythe two random rails r₁ and r₂), it is possible to identify the valuesof r₁ and r₂. For example, assume a scenario where 406 b and 406 c are0's and 406 d and 406 e are 1's. Then if r₁ is 0, either 406 b or 406 cwill be selected and 405 will always be 0. If r₁ is 1, either 406 d or406 e will be selected and 405 will always be 1. Since 405 is indual-rail representation with r₁ as the random rail, we can know thatthe corresponding data on 405 is 0 (either “00” or “11” correspond to0). Furthermore, based on the logic value at 409 in the next cycle andcomparing it with this value at 405, we can infer the value of either r₁or r₂ in the next cycle, depending on whether the output is set todual-rail signal with r₁ or r₂. Assuming that 409 is set to dual-railsignal with r₁, following the same logic reasoning, all the scenarioswhere attackers can infer data from design 400 are illustrated in FIG.7. The scenarios 701 assume the attacker has no knowledge of the valuesof the two random rails r₁′ and r₂′ in the previous clock cycle. Thescenarios 702 assume the attacker has knowledge of the value of therandom rail r₁′ in the previous clock cycle. The scenarios 703 assumethe attacker has knowledge of the value of the random rails r₂′ in theprevious clock cycle. The scenarios 704 assume the attacker hasknowledge of the values of both of the random rails r₁′ and r₂′ in theprevious clock cycle. Compared with the total number of possiblescenarios, however, the chances are still low.

It is worthwhile to point out that the different possible variations inimplementation create an additional layer of protection. The abovediscussion assumes that an attacker knows the detailed circuitimplementation to identify the information. However, with the manypossible variations, unless an attacker can know directly from thefabrication which one is exactly used in the chip he intends to hack,which is a very challenging task, the only way he would be able to knowso would be through reverse-engineering, which will damage the chip andno information can be obtained.

Clearly many modifications and variations of the present invention arepossible in light of the above teachings. It should therefore beunderstood that, within the scope of the inventive concept, theinvention may be practiced otherwise than as specifically claimed.

What is claimed is:
 1. A sequential logic circuit security apparatus,comprising: at least two combinational logic circuit functions eachhaving an output and at least one pair of logic inputs; at least tworandom logic state generators each randomly outputting a logic state 1or 0; a first encoder for encoding each logic input of said at least onepair of logic inputs with a Boolean operation on a preselected one ofsaid at least two random logic state generators; a multiplexer having anoutput, and at least two selectable inputs each being connected to arespective said output of said at least two combinational logic circuitfunctions, wherein said multiplexer selects one of said outputs of saidat least two combinational logic circuit functions according to saidlogic state of said at least two random logic state generators; a latchhaving an input connected to said output of said multiplexer, an output,and a clock input; an exclusive OR circuit having an output, a firstinput connected to said latch output, and a second input, wherein saidsecond input is encoded by a second encoder performing said Booleanoperation on a current clock cycle state and a prior clock cycle stateof said preselected one of said at least two random logic stategenerators.
 2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said Boolean operationis an exclusive OR operation.
 3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein saidsecond input is encoded by a second encoder performing said Booleanoperation on: a current clock cycle state of a non-preselected one ofsaid at least two random logic state generators; and a prior clock cyclestate of said preselected one of said at least two random logic stategenerators.
 4. In a sequential logic circuit having at least twocombinational logic circuit functions each having an output and at leastone pair of logic inputs, a security method for use therewith,comprising the steps of: generating at least two random logic stateseach randomly comprising a logic state 1 or 0; encoding each logic inputof said at least one pair of logic inputs with a Boolean operation on apreselected one of said at least two random logic states; selectivelymultiplexing said output of said at least two combinational logiccircuit functions according to a logic state of said at least two randomlogic states; latching said multiplexed output of said at least twocombinational logic circuit functions; exclusively OR'ing a first inputcomprising said multiplexed output of said at least two combinationallogic circuit functions, with an encoded second input, wherein saidsecond input is encoded by a step of performing said Boolean operationon a current clock cycle state and a prior clock cycle state of saidpreselected one of said at least two random logic states.
 5. The methodof claim 2, wherein said Boolean operation is an exclusive OR operation.6. The method of claim 5, wherein said second input is encoded by a stepof performing said Boolean operation on: a current clock cycle state ofa non-preselected one of said at least two random logic states; and aprior clock cycle state of said preselected one of said at least tworandom logic states.
 7. A secure logic chip as an article of manufacturecomprising a logic portion and a security portion, wherein said logicportion comprises a plurality of combinational logic circuits eachhaving inputs and an output; said security portion comprises: a randomlogic state generator producing two randomly generated logic states; amultiplexer, having as inputs said outputs of said combinational logiccircuits; and having a selection among said inputs based upon the logicstate of said two randomly generated logic states; a latch for latchingan output of said multiplexer; and an exclusive OR for decoding anoutput of said latch as a function of at least one of said two randomlygenerated logic states; and wherein said logic portion and said securityportion are manufactured as separate chips and thereafter functionallyintegrated into said secure logic chip.
 8. The secure logic chip ofclaim 7, wherein said logic portion and said secure portion arefunctionally integrated by: arrangement as a physical stack; andthrough-silicon-vias to establish electrical connections between saidlogic portion and said secure portion.
 9. A semiconductor chip as anarticle of manufacture for securely encoding logic circuits, comprising:an array of security encoding cells fabricated onto said semiconductorchip, wherein each said cell further comprises: a multiplexer, having asinputs those outputs of said logic circuits to be securely encoded; andhaving a selection among said inputs based upon the logic state of oneor more randomly generated logic states; a latch for latching an outputof said multiplexer; and an exclusive OR for decoding an output of saidlatch as a function of said one or more randomly generated logic states;and a crossbar structure for electrically interconnecting said one ormore randomly generated logic states to all said security encoding cellsin said semiconductor chip.
 10. The semiconductor chip as an article ofmanufacture of claim 9, further comprising through-silicon-vias toestablish electrical connections between said security encoding cellsand said logic circuits.